Creatine kinase at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston

1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$43.00

Cash price

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Discounted cash price

What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.

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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$286.62

Gross charge

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Gross charge (chargemaster price)

The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this.

Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.

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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$5.47 with CHC vs $28.43 with Cigna — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate

The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.

Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.

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Payer
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Payer

The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on.

Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509.

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Plan
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Plan

The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates.

Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
CHC Medicaid|CHIP $5.47 ↓ -87%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $5.47 ↓ -87%
UNITED Medicaid|CHIP $5.47 ↓ -87%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $5.47 ↓ -87%
UNITED Medicaid|STARKIDS $5.47 ↓ -87%
TCHP Medicaid|CHIP $5.47 ↓ -87%
TCHP Medicaid|All Other Plans $5.47 ↓ -87%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|STARPLUS $5.47 ↓ -87%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|All Other Plans $5.47 ↓ -87%
CHC Medicaid|All Other Plans $5.47 ↓ -87%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicaid|STARPLUS $5.58 ↓ -87%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Other Plans $5.63 ↓ -87%
BCBS Medicaid|All Plans $5.74 ↓ -87%
United Commercial|Exchange $6.38 ↓ -85%
TCHP Medicaid|STAR $6.40 ↓ -85%
CHC Medicaid|STAR $6.40 ↓ -85%
UNITED Medicaid|STAR $6.40 ↓ -85%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $6.51 ↓ -85%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $6.51 ↓ -85%
UNITED Medicare|All Plans $6.51 ↓ -85%
HUMANA Medicare|All Plans $6.51 ↓ -85%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|All Other Plans $6.51 ↓ -85%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|PPO $6.58 ↓ -85%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STAR $6.62 ↓ -85%
Wellpoint Medicare|All Plans $6.71 ↓ -84%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $6.97 ↓ -84%
MD Save Commercial|All Plans $8.14 ↓ -81%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $9.77 ↓ -77%
Angelina County Commercial|All Plans $10.42 ↓ -76%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $10.44 ↓ -76%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STARPLUS $12.14 ↓ -72%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO $12.37 ↓ -71%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $13.92 ↓ -68%
Entrust Commercial|All Plans $16.93 ↓ -61%
Aetna Commercial|All Plans $17.69 ↓ -59%
Brookshire Brothers Commercial|All Plans $19.53 ↓ -55%
PHCS Commercial|All Plans $19.72 ↓ -54%
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans $20.30 ↓ -53%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $21.48 ↓ -50%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $22.79 ↓ -47%
Galaxy Commercial|All Plans $26.10 ↓ -39%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $26.30 ↓ -39%
Cigna Commercial|All Plans $28.43 ↓ -34%

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